This site does not dispense medical advice or advice of any kind. It simply relates what one father did after being told his daughter had only three hours to live.

The doctors at the City of Hope told us that our daughter was in advanced stages of  Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and had only about THREE WEEKS to live. At the end of that time, we were told to go to her room and stay with her because she was dying and had only about THREE HOURS to live. After sitting in her room for a few minutes, I told my wife I had to leave ... I couldn’t just sit there and watch her die without trying to do something to help.

I got on the freeway and as I was driving, I was praying that God would lead me to where I could find help for my daughter. A name flashed across my mind ... the name of a Shaklee Products Sales Leader who had come to Arkansas to give a meeting on Shaklee Food Supplements. I couldn’t remember what he said but I did remember that he made a lot of sense. I looked his name up in a phone book and went to his office.

After telling him why I had come to see him, he asked, “Is she on the food supplements”?

“No”, I replied then I added, “It’s a little late for that now isn’t it?”

“Yes, it probably is ... but you would feel better if you could do something to help make her happier as she passed away”.

I agreed ... and bought everything Shaklee made that was chewable (Vita-E, Vita-C, Vita-Cal (Calcium) plus the Children’s Liqui-Lea Multi-Vitamin-Mineral product, the Herb-Lax (cleansing herbs I could make into a tea) and the Instant Protein Drink Mix.

I asked, “How much shall I give her?”

He answered, “How much do you love her?

I said, “Lots!”.

“Well?

“So I’ll give her a handful!

“Fine!”

Then I asked, “How often shall I give it to her?”

He answered, “How much do you love her?”

“I just told you, lots!”

”Well?”

“How about every hour?

“Fine”

I returned to the hospital and stopped by the Chief Pediatrician’s office for his permission to give my daughter the food supplements. I reached down into the paper sack and pulled up one of the Shaklee products, at which point he yelled, “GET THAT STUFF OUT OF HERE. THAT STUFF DOES NO GOOD. IF IT DID ANY GOOD, WE’D GIVE IT TO EVERYBODY IN THE HOSPITAL BUT SINCE IT DOES NO GOOD, WE GIVE IT TO NO ONE!” 

“But I’ll feel better knowing I’ve done the last thing I can do to try to help! I just can’t sit there and watch her die. You only gave her three hours to live and I’ve got to do something!”

“You can go to her room and and be with her while she dies --- THAT’S ALL YOU CAN DO!”

I said, “Shaklee isn’t synthetic like “One-A-Day” or “Centrum”; it’s a natural, organic, concentrated food product full of natural vitamins and minerals!” at which point he shouted,

“A VITAMIN IS A VITAMIN IS A VITAMIN ... THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NATURAL AND SYNTHETIC.”

At the time, I was unaware that Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, about the year 424 B.C., made the statement, "Your food shall be your medicine and your medicine shall be your food.”  Had I known that, I most certainly would have brought it up to the doctor!

As it was, I tried to explain one difference -between natural and synthetic vitamins-- how a beam of polarized light passing through a natural vitamin will bend to the right but when passing through a synthetic vitamin will split into two parts, one part bending to the right and one part bending to the left. I explained that enzymes in the body also had a right handed twist ... and that vitamins were actually “co-enzymes” and thus also needed a right hand twist to be totally effective. However, nothing I said could convince him and we argued for some time. Finally, after 35 minutes of trying to get his permission, he must have seen I was too emotionally upset to give in so he gave in --- but as I left, he shouted down the hall, “IT’S NOT GOING TO DO ANY GOOD! IT’S NOT GOING TO DO ANY GOOD!”

Everybody in the busy hallway and nurses’s station turned around to see who he was yelling at and my face must have turned beet red and I could feel the anger building up ... but I decided to let him be ... I had more important work to do and not much time to do it!

When I got to my daughter’s room, my wife and mother-in-law were there. As I took the supplements out of the bag, my wife asked, “Did the doctor say you could give her that?”

“Yes!” I said, and she took off down the hall toward the doctor’s office.

Then it was my mother-in-law’s turn: “YOU’RE GOING TO KILL HER WITH THAT STUFF!!” she screamed.

I said, “Mom, she’s DYING already. We don’t need that kind of talk here! You will leave the room ... NOW! ...and I escorted her out of the room and then shut the door.”

The doctors had told us that she had ”full-blown leukemia ... 100% of her bone marrow were cancer cells ... she had four blood infections, all fatal, with a 107 temp ... and 100% of her bone marrow was cancer cells.  They said she “had gone over the hill”. As I prepared to give my daughter the food supplements, I prayed God would give me wisdom to be of help to my daughter. I opened the bottles and counted out three tablets from each; then prepared the Instant Protein drink and Herb Lax tea. Then I tried to wake up my daughter ... but she didn’t respond to my coaxing so I picked her up and held her in my arms ... and I talked to her:

“ I love you. I love you very much. I want to see you get better. These food supplements will help your body build strong, healthy, new cells!”  I stopped and thought,”She can’t understand a word I’m saying ... I might as well ... NO!!! I haven’t come this far just to give up!!! If she can’t understand what I’m saying, she can at least feel the love!”

I continued the gentle coaxing: “Let’s build some healthy new cells! Now, chew this up ...” and I placed a chewable Vita-C tablet in her mouth. It must have tasted good ... she made an effort to chew it a few times  ... but then fell back asleep. I just kept up the gentle coaxing until all the supplements were chewed and swallowed with a sip of the Instant Protein drink or the cleansing herbal tea. It took about 35 minutes!

I did this every hour on the hour for three hours ... and her temperature want down from 107 to 104. We took a break and went to dinner. On our return a couple of hours later, her temperature was back up to 107. I repeated what I had done before ... and three hours later her temperature had dropped once again to 104.  We went to bed for the night. The next morning, her temperature was 107. I repeated the supplement routine every hour for three hours ... her temp went back down to 104. I showed my wife the chart and said, “Honey, look!  Every time we take a break, her temp goes up ... from now on, no more breaks!

I can’t remember anything about the following three weeks. It’s all just a blur. I’m sure I was suffering from”sleep deprivation”. I do remember however, the day  when the doctor called me to his office and said we could take our daughter home!!! 

Then he added, “You’ll always think it’s what you did that saved your daughter’s life ... but I have news for you ... it wasn’t what YOU did ... It’s what WE did ... the chemotherapy ... transfusions ... antibiotics!!!

I responded, “Why can’t we just agree that the chemotherapy killed the cancer cells, the antibiotics killed the bacterial infection, the transfusions gave her body a fighting chance ... and the Shaklee Food Supplements gave her body the raw materials it needed to build strong, healthy new cells. The junk food you give the children in this hospital certainly can’t do that!

“We want the children to be happy as they pass away” he said.

“Furthermore we want you to stop all the supplementation since it will interfere with the next round of chemotherapy. And, let her eat all the candy and ice cream and soda pop and potato chips she wants because she is only in remission and in 18 months she’ll come out of remission and die! Since she was so bad off the first time, there will be no way we can put her back into remission the second time.”

This “death sentence” was very hard on my wife. My words of encouragement were to no avail. “You’re not a doctor!” she said. “Why don’t you become a doctor then people will listen to you?”

I responded, I don’t need to be a doctor for people to listen to me! They’ll just  look at our daughter and see the results! It’s just like Dr. Shaklee said,

“Treat the body fairly and the body will treat you fairly. Treat the body unfairly, and the body will treat you unfairly.”

If I had known about Hippocrates statement, "Your food shall be your medicine and your medicine shall be your food”, I most certainly would have repeated that  too!

On our return home, I,went through our pantry and refrigerator and discarded three 33 gallon trash cans full of “junk food” and foodless food”.  I went to the supermarket and bought fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables; and the best whole grain bread I could find. We found a source of raw milk and made our own cottage cheese and kefir. I made sure the entire family used the Shaklee Food Supplements daily ... and, I decided to give our daughter only half of her prescribed medications.

The people in our little Ozark town were wonderful!  Several musicians organized some music benefits for our daughter and the biggest one was held in the school gymnasium. All of the contributions were held in a trust fund at the local bank to be used for treatment and travel expenses for the bi-monthly checkups at the City of Hope.

We continued to take our daughter for her regular checkups at City of Hope and on one visit, I was pleased to share the good news about my wife’s tumors going away after our change of diet and addition of Shaklee Food Supplements. The doctor discounted everything with, “That was just a coincidence ... happens all the time!”

I’m very thankful for “coincidences” like that!!!

Next: “A NEW CRISIS”